Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-08-17

IpFOIFSr duu uIcu TWO sHOGS Ut DOunell
without effect. O'Donnell then took the
weapon away from Douglas and shot him
through the head.
THEY ARE ON THE OUTS.
A Shining Priest Apologies and is For.
given.
new YORK, Aug. 16.-Archbishop Cor
rigan has made public the following:
Rev. DR.. Curran has expressed to the
Most Rev. Archbishop his sorrow that
his presence at a recent picnic, in COM
pany with DR.. McGJynn, has been inter
preted as favoring contumacy end disre-
spect to the Holy See, and he has prom
Used to abstain in future from anything
that might give rise to such Interpreters
t1on.
The above paragraph has been ap-
proved of by DIR. Curran, and has been
accepted as an apology for his presence
party.
Some days ago, when 1t became known
that DR.. Curran had appeared on a pub
lie platform beside DR.. McGlynn, and
acting as chairman in place of Henry
George, had introduced the excommuni-
Gated clergyman to the gathering at the
United Labor party picnic, people natur-
ally expected that the archbishop would
not fail to notice this disregard of his
monition, indirectly conveyed in the pub
LEGATION of the communication of the
ex-pastor of. st. Stephens.
A few days after his return to SAUCER
ties, where he is stationed, DIR. Curran
received a letter from the archbishop,
and, in obedience to the wish therein ex-
pressed. visited his grace at the episcopal
residence. The result of the interview
and the circumstances leading to it are
here published by authority, and in the
words of Father LovelIe, the rector Of
the cathedral:
ut is time to stop all %quibbling by
placing the facts of the case and its at
tendant circumstances properly before
the people. b Holy See had requested
more thnn IN that DR.. McGlynn be in
hibited from attending political meet
ings. DR.. McGlYnn had been informed
of this request, and was called to time
for q political speech made by him in o.
tober last. The doctrines he proclaimed
were palpably at variance with the COM
monty received notions of the rights of
property, not only among Catholics and
all Christians, but throughout the world
doctrines professedly revolutionary,
and to the aid of which DIR. McGlynn
was attempting to bring his prestige as a
priest, and with 1t the apparent sympa-
thy OF the Catholic church. Under the
circumstance it is not. surprising that
the Holy See called DIR. McGlynn to
Rome, thereby giving him the best OPP
%portunity possible to explain his conduct.
At the same time the Holy See employed
and this is a positive fact-competent
theologians to examine. the theories OF
Henry George, that it might proceed
with q full knowledge of the case in
question.
s'The th~eologians report was not more
favorable to the theories of Henry
George than thus Tar has been the judg-
ment of all that is wiser and best In the
world. There can be nc doubt that the
far greater part of those who nave in any
way identified themselves with George OF
McGlynn have done SO, not because they
either understood or approved the George
theories, but because of either discomfort
with their condition in life, or of personal
attachment to DR.. McGlynn.
The congregation, however, did not
pass upon the George theories. DR.. Nc
Glynn had already begun to pose as the
priest of the poor and as the friend of the
oppressed laborinB classes--just as though
every priest in New York could not claim,
those titles with as much ~jnstice as he-
and the Roman authorities invited him
and finally commanded him, to 20 to
Rene and explain his position and de-
fend it in any way that he could; and
CHS order was formulated Under penalty
of mourning the accommodation ipso
facto If not complied with in forty days.
DR., McGlynn was therefore excommuni-
Gated for contumacious d~isobedience, and
it is all nonsense for any one to say that
the censure was inflicted upon him be-
cause he was q friend Of the United La
Dor party, or OF the struggling masses, or
simply or only because he had laugh the
doctrines of Henry George.
This censure having been inflicted, a
consequence naturally followed, namely:
That all those who aided and abetted DR..
McGlynn in his contumacious disobedi-
ence also incurred the penalty Of excom-
munication. This law is not a new one.
1t is q part of the old canon law of the
church, and remains in force notwith-
standing the changes made by Pope Plus
liz. regarding penalties incurred by those
who associate with communicated per-
sons Its obvious nature was the protec-
ton OF the papal authority, because an
accommodated man might laugh at the
pontif if his friends could still approve
and abet the crime for which the censure
of the church had been inflicted.
with regard to DR.. Curran, he, as a
doctor. of divinity, certainly knew the
law or the church. Whether by his ac-
tion be incurred this accommodation
or not might be controversial; but GER
tainly his action was, to say the least,
very offensive and Objectionable. DIR.
Curran has recognized this latter fact,
and hence, a few days ago, he made the
smende honorable to the archbishop. as
win appear from the paragraph quoted
above.
VIII Issue More bills.
WASHINGTON, Aug. i6.--The treasury
department will begin issEIng 81 and So
notes, and shipments van be made to
Ne,E FORK, philadelphia, and Boston.
Chicago and other western cities Will be